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02 June 2017
Issue: 7748 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Medical practitioner

General Medical Council v Jagjivan and another [2017] EWHC 1247 (Admin), [2017] EWHC 1247 (Admin)

The Divisional Court, in allowing the General Medical Council’s appeal, held that it had jurisdiction, under s 40A(1)(d) of the Medical Act 1983, to appeal, as the Medical Practitioners Tribunal had made a decision not to give a direction under s 35D of the Act. Further, the tribunal’s failure to find that there had been a sexual motivation for the first respondent’s actions had been wrong and unsustainable.

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